It is the Morocco National Football Team, dubbed "the Atlas Lions", is the representative of Morocco in international football for men tournaments. It is run by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, which is also known as FRMF. The colors of the team are green and red. The team is an active member of both FIFA as well as the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
In the world arena, Morocco won the 1976 African Cup of Nations, two African Nations Championships and FIFA Arab Cup once. They've participated in the FIFA World Cup six times. Their most successful result was during the year 1986 when they became the first and one and only African nation to be the top team in an entire group in the FIFA World Cup. In 1986's FIFA World Cup Group F, Morocco finished ahead of England, Portugal and Poland after holding Poland as well as England to goalless ties, and defeating Portugal 3-1. They became one of the first African national team of football, and the only national football team from outside Europe in those from the Americas (after North Korea in 1966 World Cup), to be able to make it into the second round of the World Cup. In the next round of 16 knockouts they lost narrowly to the eventual champions West Germany 1-0.
The main rivals of Morocco are predominantly Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt. Morocco also has had extremely fierce matches against Gabon as well as Ivory Coast, due to the frequent matches they have played in recent times. Morocco has numerous talented players who were born in Europe and currently playing in the best European leagues (Premier League, LaLiga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Eredivisie and is thought to be as one of the best teams in African football history.
The Atlas Lions were considered one of the most successful national teams of football around the globe when they were ranked as at the top of the FIFA World Rankings in April 1998. This was one of the first African national team to be recognized by FIFA as one of the top ten teams of national football. Also, they are the first African national team to be among high in the FIFA World Rankings over three years. They were ranked by FIFA between 1997 and 1999. At the time of writing, June 20, 2022 Morocco was ranked the 22nd-best team in the world.
